Linux Command Line Contracts in the City of London

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 164 166
Rank change year-on-year +50 +2 -20
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 11 8 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.50% 0.22% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.61% 0.61% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 16
10th Percentile £401 £516 £466
25th Percentile £425 £519 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £544 £569
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -4.40% -2.78%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £645
90th Percentile - £631 £716
Central London median daily rate £600 £544 £569
% change year-on-year +10.34% -4.40% -2.78%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Linux Command Line is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 682 1,305 1,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.97% 35.88% 35.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 891 1,104
10th Percentile £279 £350 £410
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £845 £860 £805
Central London median daily rate £575 £603 £575
% change year-on-year -4.56% +4.78% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 24
10th Percentile £12.75 £16.97 £20.53
25th Percentile £16.00 £31.31 £38.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £43.25 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.82% -9.90% +167.04%
75th Percentile £27.50 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile £54.95 - £64.78
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -34.29% -27.08% +140.00%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the City of London

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in the City of London

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the City of London

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in the City of London

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) IIS
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.09%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
3 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (9.09%) iSCSI
2 1 (9.09%) MQTT
2 1 (9.09%) NAS
2 1 (9.09%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) SAN
2 1 (9.09%) SSL
2 1 (9.09%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) DB2
1 4 (36.36%) RDBMS
1 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
1 4 (36.36%) Sybase ASE
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (9.09%) Data Mart
3 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) SonarQube
2 1 (9.09%) GoCD
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Pylint
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) DBA
1 3 (27.27%) Sybase DBA
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Backend Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) HTML
2 3 (27.27%) pytest
2 3 (27.27%) WebSockets
3 2 (18.18%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (18.18%) React
4 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
4 1 (9.09%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) gRPC
4 1 (9.09%) LAMP
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Replication
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Unix
3 2 (18.18%) VMS
3 2 (18.18%) Windows
4 1 (9.09%) Ubuntu
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) Open Source
3 4 (36.36%) Change Data Capture
3 4 (36.36%) Incident Management
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 4 (36.36%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (36.36%) Task Automation
4 3 (27.27%) CQRS
4 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Code Coverage
5 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 1 (9.09%) Agile
6 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (9.09%) ETL
6 1 (9.09%) Microservices
6 1 (9.09%) Migration
6 1 (9.09%) OO
6 1 (9.09%) Performance Metrics
6 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 7 (63.64%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) Perl
3 4 (36.36%) T-SQL
4 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
5 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
6 1 (9.09%) Go
6 1 (9.09%) Java
6 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (27.27%) Docker
3 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
4 1 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) SCCM
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) IBM
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
1 4 (36.36%) SAP
1 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
1 4 (36.36%) Sun
1 4 (36.36%) Sybase
1 4 (36.36%) Veritas
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Aruba
3 1 (9.09%) Palo Alto
3 1 (9.09%) ProCurve
3 1 (9.09%) Synology
3 1 (9.09%) Veeam
3 1 (9.09%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Zerto